[Hidden-tech] Linux Security Troubleshooting

[Charlie Heath]

Usually significant and ongoing attacks mean either that your server is
high profile in some way, or that it has some vulnerability which bots
detect and as long as the vulnerability is not addressed, you'll get added
to more and more bot lists.   If it is the latter and assuming you've
installed basic server hardening, it is likely that the prevention solution
is to secure the website in order to discourage the bots interest in your
website.  That might take a few months but just getting some IP blocking
capabilities both on your server (linux) and your website administration
(Joomla, if like your incommn website, or whatever other platform this
website uses) should be enough to satisfy Rackspace and improve your
website's performance until the bots lose interest, unless it is a high
profile site that will require more serious resources to resolve.

If you're still in need after the 4th, and it is a Joomla or Drupal site, I
can take a look-

Charlie Heath
Town Websites


On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Daniel Lieberman <daniell at incommn.com>
wrote:

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> We’re having a problem with excessive memory use on a cloud server at
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